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Heath House 
GUIDE. 



Schooley's Mountain Springs. 



WITH A MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 




GUSTAV KOBBE, 
251 BROADWAY, N, Y, 



Copyright, 1890, by Gustav Kobbe. 



Compiled from " Kobbe's Jersey Central" Guide, written, 

illustrated, engraved and printed by 

Gustav Kobbe, 

251 broadway, new york. 



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BIRD'S EYE VIEW. 



SCHOOLEYS MOUNTAIN is a broad plateau in 
the northern part of New Jersey, 1,200 feet above tide- 
water, overlooking the Musconetcong Valley on the 
north, and German Valley on the south. The temper- 
ature averages about ten degrees below New York and 
Philadelphia during the day, and fifteen to twenty dur- 
ing the night, being cool in the day and dry at night, 
and entireH' void of mists and heavy dews so common 
to places of lesser altitude. The scenery is varied and 
picturesque, and the place abounds in beautiful walks, 
drives and views, while the roads are good and the 
places of interest to visit numerous. Budd's Lake, 
Lake Hopatcong and Delaware Water Gap are within 
easy reach. Carriage parties are frequently made up 
at small cost, while special arrangements have been 
made this season for saddle-horses and a competent 
riding-master. 

THE CHALYBEATE SPRING, situated half a mile 
from the Heath House, has been long celebrated as a 
chalybeate water of great merit and is an excellent 
tonic. It was famous long before other noted springs 
were discovered, and was a noted place of resort, first 
by the Indians, and next by the white men, our ances- 
tors, some of the most distinguished of whom came 
here as long as a century ago. It is recommended by 
Prof. Mitchell, Dr. Hanbury Smith and others as being 
highly serviceable in calculus, kidney complaints, gen- 
eral debility, and torpor of the liver. The spring is on 
the mountain-side below the house, affording a pleas- 
ant mountain walk, w r hile a stage runs several times 
daily for those who prefer to ride. 



THE HEATH HOUSE AND COTTAGES consist 
of several detached buildings, none of them over three 
stories in height, with accommodations for 350 persons, 
and are situated within a beautiful lawn of twenty-five 
acres. All the rooms are pleasant. One building is 
reserved exclusively for families, the rooms all com- 
municating. Another building is reserved for adults, 
few rooms communicating, so that quiet is insured. 
There are two other buildings connected with these by 
covered walks. Several cottages are to let, so that 
people can enjoy perfect privacy and be free from the 
duties of housekeeping, as the meals are furnished by 
the Heath House. 

THE WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE of the 
Heath House are perfect, as attested to by Sanitary 
Engineer Charles F. Wingate, of New York, and Dr. 
A. N. Bell, of The Sanitarian, There are a good livery, 
billiard-room, bowling-alleys and tennis-courts, and 
evening music is furnished by an orchestra hired for 
the season. There is also a neat stage for private 
theatricals. 

THE TABLE is furnished with milk and butter from 
the adjacent farms, vegetables in great variety fresh 
from our own garden, and meats and fish from the 
best New York markets. 

There is a very pretty Church near the Heath 
House, where there are regular services the year round. 
The seats are free. Direct Telegraph communication 
is available with every part of the country. There is a 
Telephone in the hotel connecting with different parts 
of the country and with physician's office. Mails are 
frequent. 

RAILROADS. — Schooley's Mountain is reached from 
New York via D., L. & W. Railroad from foot of Chris- 



topher and Barclay Streets to Hackettstown, thence 
three miles by stage to Heath House; or via Central 
Railroad of New Jersey from foot of Liberty Street to 
German Valley, thence two and one-half miles by stage. 
From Philadelphia via Philadelphia and Reading Rail- 
road from Ninth and Green Streets to German Valley. 

The numerous fast trains of the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western Railroad to Hackettstown, several 
with parlor cars attached, make it a most pleasant and 
desirable route, the scenery being beautiful in. the ex- 
treme. Fifty-trip books sold by the above company 
for $43.75. Single fare, $1.75 ; excursion, $2.45. 

The Central Railroad of New Jersey passes through 
the most delightful scenery to be found anywhere in 
the immediate vicinity of New York. The great charm 
of the ride consists in the elegant condition of the road, 
which runs smoothly and is almost wholly free from 
dust. That portion which leads from High Bridge, 
through the German Vailey, is exceedingly picturesque 
and follows the course of the north branch of the Rari- 
tan river, now on one side and anon on the other, 
which glides dancing and laughing down its rocky bed. 
Fare, $1.75 ; excursion, $2.45. Fifty-trip books are 
also sold. 

" The proprietor of the Heath House, Mr. J. Warren 
Coleman, is a veteran hotel-keeper, and has, by his personal 
attention to the comfoi't of his guests, placed the Heath 
House once more in the front rank of summer hotels," says 
a well-known correspondent. Air. Coleman may be ad- 
dressed, Heath House, Schooley s Mountain. N. J., and 
can be seen Mondays, from 11 A. M. to 1 P. M., at his 
New York Office, Room 88. Evening Post Building, 
Fulton Street and Broadway, where photographs of the 
Heath House and surroundings are on exhibition. 




CATARACT — SCHOOLEY'S MOUNTAIN. 



THE HEATH HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS. 

Schooley's Mountain is a range some sixteen miles 
long, 1,200 feet above tide-water, and overlooking the 
Musconetcong Valley on the north and German Valley 
on the south. It has the peculiar characteristic that, 
instead of rising in peaks, its top is a plateau of rich 
farm lands and forest, averaging over one and a quarter 
miles in width. Beautiful views may be had from various 
points on the edge of this plateau, and also from the 
road crossing the mountain between German Valley 
and Hackettstown, and running through the village of 
Schooley's Mountain and past the noted Chalybeate 
Spring. This road is a branch of an old post-route be- 
tween New York and Easton, via Elizabethport, and 
this point for crossing the mountain was doubtless 
selected because of a slight depression in the plateau. 
The draught of air through this depression and the 
altitude combine to make Schooley's Mountain a 
pleasantly cool resort, and, as the air is dry and bracing, 
and the Chalybeate Spring very effective in certain 
diseases and invigorating in all cases, the place is a 
health resort as well as a summer retreat. 

History. — Schooley's Mountain Springs is one of the 
oldest summer resorts in the United States. Indeed, it 
was a health resort before there was a United States, for 
the Chalybeate Spring was famed already among the 
Indians for its valuable curative properties. The 
Pennsylvania tribes sent for its waters, and Tedyeesung, 
the renowned king of the Lenni Lenape, is said to have 



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always kept his camp-fires burning within three miles of 
it. in order that he might resort to it at any time. There 
is also a tradition that the spring became known to the 
whites only through chance, the Indians keeping its 
existence a profound secret, and the whites first learning 
of it through a hunter, who, coming upon it, quenched 
his thirst from the rill, and, noticing the peculiar min- 
eral taste, reported his discovery. 

It it certain that there was a hotel here as early as 
1795. The old building still forms part of the Health 
House. It is appropriately called the " Alpha." In it 
are several old mirrors and pieces of furniture, relics of 
the hotel accommodations of an American summer 
resort of the last century. 

When the road across Schooley's became a regular 
turnpike and post-route in 1809, the mountain was one 
of the most famous summer resorts in the United 
States. It is spoken of by the French scientist, Milbert, 
in his " Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des 
Parties Laterales," the author having made his trip in 
1815. The description is embellished with two engrav- 
ings, one of the rock from which the spring flowed (there 
was then no spring-house or basin), the other of the 
cataract, still a natural feature of great beauty. In a 
circular issued by the Health House in 1828, the propri- 
etor offers as one of the chief inducements to visitors 
the " opportunity of associating with company the most 
gay and fashionable"; and this statement is borne out 
by the old registers preserved in the hotel office, in which 
the names of the leading New York, Philadelphia, New 
Jersey and Southern families of the day are found : 
Cornelius Roosevelt, David B. Ogden, Bishop Doane, 
George M. Dallas, Sam. Ward, Richard Varick Dey, 
J. R. Poinsett, the Livingstons^ Beekmans, Tremains, 
De Peysters, Minturns, Hones and Kanes. These 



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traveled in their own carriages with their servants and 
domestic pets, usuallv taking several days for the jour- 
ney, though the trip from New York to Easton could be 
made in one day by Stage, as appears in an advertise- 
ment oi McCowy, Drake vN: Co., April 26, 1S2S, who 
advertised their stages " to run through in one day and 
by daylight " from New York to Easton via Elizabeth- 
port, Morristown and Schooley's Mountain Springs. 
People of moderate as well as those of large means came 
to the spring, the former pitching tents or erecting tem- 
porary shanties in its vicinity, so anxious were they to 
take advantage of its curative properties. 

The spring is about half a mile from the hotels and 
Schooley's Mountain village. It is on a high rock to 
the right of the road from Ilackettstown, and the water 
is now led through a pipe into a basin around which a 
summer-house has been built. Glasses can be obtained 
for a small fee in a neighboring house, but visitors are 
advised to take them from their hotel or cottage. The 
water can also be ordered at the hotel. It is especially 
recommended for calculus, kidney complaints, torpor 
of the liver and as a tonic. 

It was analyzed early in the century by distinguished 
chemists, w T ho also testified that it was the purest chaly- 
beate water in the United States. Following is the 
latest analysis by Dr. T. M. Coan: 

So lids . Gra in s per go lion . 

Sodium bicarb 0.58 

Magnesium carb 1.60 

Iron carb o. 58 

Calcium carb 1.42 

Calcium sulph 1.68 

Alumina 0.14 

Silicic acid o. 74 

Sodium chloride 0.43 

7.17 

with a trace of manganese carbonate and of ammonia. 



The *• Alpha." mentioned above, was probably a road- 
house, flourishing on the patronage bestowed upon it by 
the passengers oi the stages which followed the post- 
route across the mountain. It is even said to have been 
a " jug-tavern," similar to those which in olden times 
flourished among the jersey Pines, and which owed 
their peculiar name to the fact that their whole stock in 
trade consisted of a jug of apple-jack, from which, 
however, any liquor called for by a customer was 
poured. It was simply apple-jack under another name. 
It was thus possible for a wood-ranger on Schooley's 
Mountain to be all his life long the victim of a spiritu- 
ous delusion — a condition of affairs which, however, 
does not now exist even in the most remote corner of 
New Jersey. 

As the Schooley's Mountain Spring became more 
famous, the jug-tavern and road-house improved in 
character. Additions were made until some 350 guests 
could be accommodated, and the original little building 
seemed so remote an object in history, that it was dub- 
bed the "Alpha," pretty much as if it were the very 
beginning of creation. It is thought to be, and prob- 
ably is, the oldest summer resort building in the United 
States. 

The buildings of the Heath House are all old-fash- 
ioned and ample, standing in spacious, pleasantly 
shaded grounds — some twenty-five acres in extent. 
and forming the finest naturnal lawn in the United 
States. Xear the main entrance to these grounds, to 
the right walking from the house, is a group of huge 
boulders, all of striking shapes, and one of them ap- 
propriately named the Devil's Arm-chair. Tradition 
says that the Indians often gathered here in council, 
the chief presiding in the Devil's Arm-chair. The 



Heath House is comfortably furnished; the table is 
plain but excellent and plentiful. It makes no pre- 
tence of affording a whirl of fashionable gayety, but 
seeks rather to attract those who find recreation in rest- 
ful quiet, and are satisfied with home-like accommoda- 
tions. Among its guests are several who have made it 
their summer retreat for over thirty years. The prices 
are exceedingly low, especially when the character of 
the place and the quality of accommodations and service 
are considered. 

The illustration of the Heath House is from an old 
oil painting. The grounds are so spacious and the 
hotel buildings cover so much space that they cannot be 
gotten into a photograph. 

Sanitation. — The proprietor has made sanitation a 
study. In fact it is a great hobby with him. As a re- 
sult, while the Heath House has always been noted for 
its healthfulness, it is even more healthful now. Thus 
the salubriousness of Schooley's Mountain, combined 
w T ith the sanitary improvements made by Mr. Coleman, 
make the Heath House one of the safest resorts in this 
country. In former years the Hackettstown physicians 
considered the Schooley's Mountain season good for six 
or seven hundred dollars each; last year it was worth 
only forty dollars to them, and this pal ry sum was de- 
rived chiefly from acciden s. There has not been a 
case of the various summer complaints in the house 
since Mr. Coleman's proprietorship, and no illness of 
any kind serious enough to make it necessary to call in 
a physician at night. The New Jersey Medical Society 
— and the doctors ought to know whether a place is 
healthy or not — meets at the Heath House every other 
year. It has been noticed that even horses and domes- 
tic pets are improved by the air of Schooley's Moun- 
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The following testimonials from leading sanitary 
authorities speak for themselves: 

A. N. Bell, A.M., M.D., editor of The Sanitarian, 
New York, writes as follows respecting the healthful- 
ness of bxhooley's: 

J. Warren Coleman, Esq., Heath House, Schooley s 
Mountain, A T . J. : 

The plateau into which the top of Schooley's Mount- 
ain expands is about 1,200 feet above tide-water, and 
far enough away — about sixty miles — to be free from 
the excessive atmospheric dampness common to the sea- 
coast and river banks. The temperature observed dur- 
ing my stay there during the excessively hot days of 
the last week in June, w T as ten degrees lower than the 
record for the same period of time in New York. The 
general surface of the plateau is so cut up by living 
streamlets as to entirely divest it of saturation and stag- 
nant water, by natural drainage. From every vege- 
table matter in a state of decomposition it is also singu- 
larly free, by reason of the well-kept roads which inter- 
sect and divide the numerous farms and fruitful 
orchards from the groves of oak, hickory and chestnut 
which crown the whole plateau, 

There is, in short, besides these positive contributive 
sources to salubrity, an entire absence of the conditions 
common to unhealthy places, such as marshy surround- 
ings, soil saturation, excessive moisture, vegetable mat- 
ter in a state of decomposition, piggeries and farm-yards 
filled w r ith putrefactive material, and impure water. 

Of the -Heath House and its immediate surroundings 
the same may be said. It is devoid of the conditions 
promotive of sickness painfully common to most sum- 
mer resorts, such as the so-called "sanitary" appoint- 
ments in connection with* guests' chambers and living 
apartments. The appointments of the Heath House in 
this respect, being separate from the main buildings, 
and these (the buildings) being without cellars and the 
putrefactive storage common to them, and with free 
circulation of air under the floors, render the establish- 
ment in excellent keeping with its natural advantages. 



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From Chas. F. Wingate, Sanitary Engineer: 

J. IV. Coleman, Esq., Heath House, Schooler s Mountain, 
N. J.; 

My Dear Sir — It is so difficult to find a summer re- 
sort which can be recommended as truly sanitary in its 
surroundings, that I cheerfully testify to the unusual 
advantages of Schooley's Mountain in this respect. 

Its location, upon a high plateau, some 1,200 feet 
above the level of the sea, with fine views, walks and 
drives in every direction, makes it specia ly attractive 
to lovers of beautiful scenery, while its mild and equal 
temperature is a potent restorative to the invalid and a 
stimulant to the well. 

The health record of Schooley's Mountain is remark- 
able, and its death-rate is almost unprecedently low, 
especially in view of the number of persons in delicate 
health among the summer visitors, 5 per 1,000. I 
hardly know another locality with as low a death-rate, 
and it recalls the stories of those wonderful places 
where people never die, but dry up and blow away. 

The rate of mortality among children is recognized as 
the best index of th- healthfulness of a community. The 
official records of Schooley's Mountain show that only 
one child has died in a period of eight years, out of a 
local population of 1,576 and about an equal number of 
summer visitors. 

The official death-rate, seven per thousand, is calcu- 
lated only upon the resident population ; but if due 
allowance were made for the floating population, com- 
prising many persons seeking rest because in delicate 
health, and at a season when many forms of sickness 
prevail, the death-rate would be greatly lessened. 

During my stay at the Heath House last summer with 
my family, I carefully examined its sanitary surround- 
ings, with a view to suggesting any needed improve- 
ments. I found the plumbing fixtures all placed in an 
extension, so as to be completely isolated from the rest 
of the hotel, and with a free circulation of air around 
them. There are no basins in bed-rooms, and every 
care has been taken to convey the sewage to a safe dis- 
tance and to prevent any chance of annoyance or injury. 
The water supply is free from polluting influences. 



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There is an abundance of shade, without too much 
tation to promote damp ; while the out-door sur- 
roundings are neat and cleanly. In short, sanitary 
considerations seem to have been studied at every point, 
and this, I am sure, will have due weight with future 
guests. 

The water used in the Heath House is from a deep- 
rock well protected by a covered stone structure, so that 
no fore : gn substance can fall into it ; and it is naturally 
►Id that even in the heat of summer no ice is needed. 

ANALYSIS OF HEATH HOUSE SPRING. 

Sulphate of Lime S Grains. 

of Magnesia 2 " 

Chloride of Sodium 31 " 

of Magnesium 17 

Silica 3 " 

Carbonate of Lime 16 

of Magnesia 7 " 

of Iron 4 " 

Chloride of Potassium 3 " 

The water of Schooley's Mountain Spring is of excel- 
lent quality, and shows by analysis an exceptionally pure 
water. 

Prof. Geo. H. Cook, 

State Geologist. 

There is no plumbing in the house. The sewage is 
carried off and distributed on the Waring system, the 
most approved system of sanitary drainage. All refuse 
matter from the table or kitchen is cremated at the 
proper distance from the house. 

The Surroundings. — From points along the edge of 
the mountain which command views over the Musconet- 
cong or German Valleys, one can realize that one is 
1,200 feet above the sea. Until these points have been 
visited, a sojourner at Schooley's Mountain does not 
begin to realize its attractions ; but, as he gradually 
discovers them and the gushing -mountain streams and 



water-falls within easy driving and walking distance 
from the hotels, he begins to appreciate the fact that no 
resort so near New York offers such a variety of moun- 
tain scenery. Moreover, as several of these spots are 
known to but few, whoever will s art out in search of 
Basin Rock, the Point or "Pint" Mill, Eagle's Nest, 
Bald Mountain, Prospect Hill, the Cataract, or Striker's 
Falls, can do so with something of the importance 
and zest of a discoverer. Sitting on a hotel piazza 
reading a pink, blue or yellow-colored novel ; riding two 
or three times around "the circle"; strolling down to 
the spring-house and back — doing these and similar 
things is not the sum of enjoyment one can derive from 
a visit to this resort. 

A lovely glimpse of the Valley of the Musconetcong is 
had from a point called Valley View, barely more than 
200 rods in front of the hotel. Here you stand at the 
apex of a clove running up from the valley. It is a 
narrow opening, intercepted here and there by wooded 
promontorits, and musical with the rushing waters of a 
brook completely hidden from view by the foliage. At 
the foot of the clove lies the Musconetcong Valley, with 
the steeples of Hackettstown peeping out from among 
the trees that shade"its streets, the hills beyond forming 
a picturesque background with their fertile slopes, here 
yellow with grain, there green with corn, and dotted with 
white farm-houses or red barns. The point from which 
this view is obtained is shaded by a clump of trees, grow- 
ing up among boulders w T hose gray tones, lit up now and 
then by glints of sunshine, harmonize with the cool 
shadow of the foliage ; and, to one looking out from this 
recess, the glimpse of valley and distant hills, at the 
end of the soft, green slopes of the clove, seems unusu- 
ally bright and friendly. 

Another point of interest of easy access from the 



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hotels— about a mile and a half — is the Cataract. To 
reach it take the Hackettstown road to a point a little 
below the Spring 1 louse, where a rough wood-road enters 
the woods to the right and crosses the brook. Follow 
this road, always keeping to the right, until a second 
brook is reached. A little way up this is the Cataract. 
Here there is an almost sudden descent of about ioo 
feet from the plateau into the rocky clove up which we 
have followed the brook whose waters now come leap- 
ing down from boulder to boulder, sending their white 
spray flying in showers, rushing through crevasses, 
frothing up against the trunks of fallen trees and finally 
hurrying away through the clove toward the Valley of 
the Musconetcong. The ascent of the Cataract is best 
made on the left. Near the top is a large flat rock. On 
stepping out upon this one obtains without the slightest 
previous intimation a glimpse of the valley similar to 
that had from Valley View, the rock overlooking the 
tops of the trees at the foot of the Cataract. The view 
seems the lovelier for being had so unexpectedly from the 
very heart of the forest. Not far from the top of the 
Cataract are fields through which one can easily reach 
the village and hotels, so that it is not necessary to 
again descend into the clove and return by the Hack- 
ettstowm road. 

There is another and even more picturesque water- 
fall near Schooley's Mountain. This is Stryker's Falls, 
off the German Valley road, and is reached by following 
this road through Springtown to a stone quarry, and 
there turning off to the left a short distance into the 
woods, from where one is guided to the falls by the sound 
of rushing water. As the path is not, however, easy to 
find, it is well to get a boy in Springtown to act as 
guide. 

About one and a quarter miles from the hotel is Pros- 



pect Hill. The road leads down into a ravine and then 
up a steep hill. In a pasture-field to the right is a chest- 
nut tree, from near which one obtains a view of the 
Musconetcong Valley, less circumscribed than that from 
Valley View, and enhanced by the delicate hues of the 
Blue Ridge in the distance. 

A fine view of the Musconetcong Valley and beyond 
to the Delaware Water Gap, the gap in the mountains 
being clearly defined, is to be had from Mr. Alfred Sul- 
ly's place, on the road between Drakestown and Hack- 
ettstown. Almost the same view can be had also by 
taking the Budd's Lake road almost to Drakestown, but 
turning from it on the road which, near Drakestown, 
goes off to the left. Very soon after get ing on this road 
the view referred to is obtained. The road eventually 
leads into that crossing the mountain, which may be 
taken back to the hotels, but, as the map show r s there is 
a way of avoiding the steep grade of the mountain road, 
by taking the first turn to the left, which brings one on 
to the Budd's Lake road. Fine views can also be had 
from Eagle's Nest, Bald Mountain and Drake Hill ; but 
they do not differ in character from those already de- 
scribed. Each of the points named, excepting Valley 
View, which is too near, and the points near Drakes- 
town, which are too far (for the ordinary walker), is a 
pleasant excursion for a morning or afternoon. It is 
also an easy matter to drive to Budd's Lake and back 
in half a day, but it is better to take a day for this pur- 
pose, in order to enjoy the boating and fishing on this 
attractive sheet of water. 

A superb panoramic view T is had from a huge rock at 
the edge of the plateau, about seven miles southwest of 
the hotel by the shorter road. This grim reminder of a 
remote geological age of ice and gloom is variously called 
Eagle Rock, Basin Rock, and the Point, the last name 



being applied to it on the map of the ( reologica] Survey of 
New fersey. The view is undoubtedly the finest to be had 

from any part oi Schooley's Mountain, and the roads to 
it (for there arc two) also afford many glimpses of pretty 
scenery, and at least one exceptionally beautiful vista. 
{)\ course it is an easy morning or afternoon drive; but 
it is a delightful day's excursion afoot, and, if the party 
wants to walk only one way, the train can be taken at 
Port Murray, only one and a half miles from the Point, 
for Hackettstown. and the stage from there for 
Schooley's Mountain. The Point is reached by the 
Pleasant Grove road. Just before it descends towards 
"the Grove" one has to the right a view extending, on 
a clear day, to the Water Gap. After passing through 
Pleasant Grove, tw r o courses are open — to take the first 
road to the left and swing around past Mount Lebanon 
Church to the Point, or to proceed on through Pennville 
toward Anderson, near which latter place a road to the 
left leads to the Point. A glance at the map will show 
that one can take either of these routes, and by simply 
continuing on past the Point return by the other, the 
road forming a loop to the Pleasant Grove road. 

Both routes are about equally attractive, but parties 
afoot who intend taking the train from Port Murray 
will, perhaps, find greater variety along the Mount 
Lebanon Church road. 

The Point is not reached by the w<agon road. It is 
necessary to clamber for about ten minutes up a steep 
path so overgrown with brush that it is advisable to have 
a boy from one of the families on the mountain-side to 
act as guide. The view from the rock up and down the 
Musconetcong Valley is superb. Along the foot of the 
mountain flows the Musconetcong, whose course is 
marked by the sinuous line of trees which shade its cool 
current. Now and then, through a break in the foliage, 



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its glistening waters come into view only to vanish again 
under the green archway. Rich pasture lands and fields 
of waving green impart a velvety softness to the slope of 
the opposite hills, whose predominating colors are varied 
with the white and red of neat farm-houses and ample 
barns. The series of mountain ranges beyond fade 
away from dark green to delicate tints of blue which 
finally lose themselves in the hazy distance. As with all 
the views in this region, there is nothing rugged or 
grand in this. But it has a certain feminine softness 
and grace which give it a peculiar charm. On a bright 
day Nature is seen here in one of her most affable moods; 
and, even if a storm be brewing, she is, perhaps, all the 
prettier for her passing petulancy. 

At the foot of the mountain is the Point Mill, and 
from the bridge the view up the Musconetcong is one 
of tranquil beauty — the water as it flows over the low 
dam stretching like a band across the steam, with soft 
borders of grass along the shaded banks above and 
floating islands of lily-pads beyond. 

Lake Hopatcong, the largest and most famous lake 
in New Jersey, is eighteen miles from the Heath 
House over beautiful roads, and is naturally a very 
popular drive. It seems etched in silver among the 
wooded slopes of the highlands. The name is of In- 
dian derivation, meaning " pipe water," the lake having 
had the shape of a pipe before its waters were artificially 
raised for the purposes of the Morris Canal. Rocky 
and beautiful shores, deep, romantic coves and pic- 
turesque islands, make boating on the lake a delight. It 
is seven miles long and two miles wide at its broadest 
point. The Hotel Breslin, G. M. Brockway, Manager, 
is delightfully situated. 

The Delaware Water Gap, one of Nature's won- 
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Hackettstown, and is also a beautiful drive, which can 
be taken in a day. although it is more advisable to take 
a longer time. The hotels are the Kittatinny House. 
W. A. Brodhead & Sons, and the Water Gap House, 
L. W. Brodhead. 

Budd's Lake nestles delightfully among the hills, 
and is a pretty sheet of water, full of bass and pickerel. 
In season there is abundant shooting over the moun- 
tain; and in the early fall excellent duck-shooting on the 
lake. Joseph Bonaparte once thought of settling here, 
but during the negotiations he chanced to discover a 
caricature of his illustrious relative, belonging to the 
proprietor's daughter, which caused him to change his 
mind. The lake is but a morning's or afternoon's drive 
from Schooley's. 



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